Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 79
Now, one day Sun-Yen was disturbed in the midst of his morbid meditations by the arrival at his poor dwelling of the Mandarin of the province.
Who acts: arrival, sight · What happens: disturb, meditate · To what, where: one day, midst
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrival, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 disturbed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yen | punct |
| 7 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 9 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disturbed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 meditations | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 meditations | nmod:poss |
| 15 | morbid | morbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 meditations | amod |
| 16 | meditations | meditation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 midst | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 arrival | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arrival | det |
| 19 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disturbed | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 dwelling | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dwelling | amod |
| 23 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrival | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Mandarin | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Mandarin | det |
| 26 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dwelling | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 province | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 province | det |
| 29 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Mandarin | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the arrival at sight's poor dwelling of the Mandarin of the province | one day | the midst of sight's morbid meditations | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | meditate | sight | nom meditation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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